Pop-up display device

ABSTRACT

Herein included are: an image display unit that displays hierarchical display images of an application constituted by software having one or more functions; a display information preserving unit in which settings of images to be displayed on the image display unit are preserved; and a display controlling unit that, when the hierarchical display images of the application preserved in the display information preserving unit are displayed, controls a pop-up image that corresponds to said application but is other than the display images, to be displayed on the front side of the hierarchical display images of the application.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a pop-up display device that performspop-up displaying at the time of displaying a display image of anapplication constituted by software having an arbitrary function.

BACKGROUND ART

Heretofore, pop-up displaying has been largely used that displays, as agraphical user interface (GUI), a pop-up image, for example, a pop-upmenu or the like, in an overwriting manner on the front side of analready-displayed display screen. Accordingly, there are proposed manytechniques for efficiently performing pop-up displaying.

For example, in Patent Document 1, there is disclosed a pop-up displaydevice having a function that can, when a new pop-up image is displayedduring displaying a plurality of pop-up images, select whether to deleteor to keep displaying in a fixed period, the other pop-up images.According to this technique, each pop-up image can be changed in size orposition arbitrarily, and further, a word balloon for a pop-up objectcan be displayed. This makes it possible to display a target pop-upimage in an easily-viewable manner for a user even when a plurality ofpop-up images emerges.

Further, in Patent Document 2, there is disclosed a pop-up displaydevice that, in order to make a correspondence relationship between apop-up source and a pop-up image easily recognizable, displays thepop-up image without hiding the pop-up source and in such a state that aword balloon is drawn out from the pop-up image.

CITATION LIST Patent Document

Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Specification No. 4033618

Patent Document 2: Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. H10-320166

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention

Meanwhile, in the case, for example, where pop-up displaying isaccomplished in a conventional programming environment in which part(widget) groups of a button, a list, etc. for building GUIs have beenprovided beforehand, and with respect, for example, to menu widgets,etc. among the present widgets, a sub-menu image to be displayed at thetime of pressing down a button on the menu is displayed on the frontside of an application's window image. Thus, the sub-menu image isdisplayed on the most front side. Further, at that time, other than themain window image, a window image such as an alerting dialog can bedisplayed. These images are displayed in front more than the main windowimage.

However, in the pop-up displaying under the conventional programmingenvironment, since there is focused only on a front-rear relationshipbetween windows, such a problem arises that the window images other thanthe main window image are placed and hidden under (behind) the sub-menuimage of the main window image and this is unfavorable in respect ofdisplaying.

In the case of a GUI application on a PC (Personal Computer), since itis basically activated only by a user's operation, such as, pressingdown of a mouse, pressing down of a keyboard, etc. with respect to awindow operation, there is no case falling in such a display state;however, in the case of a system such as a smartphone or car-navigationsystem in which a pop-up image is suddenly displayed, without due to auser's operation, in response to the time of incoming phone call or thelike, the above-described display state may readily emerges.

However, since the menu widget is just a versatile component, it isdifficult to control such that the sub-menu image is displayed under(behind) the window (dialog) image specific to each application.Further, as shown in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, there aredisclosures in many patents related to cases of displaying a pluralityof pop-up parts; however, there is no disclosure about how to deal withthe problem as described above.

This invention has been made to solve problems including the aboveproblem, and an object thereof is to provide a pup-up display devicethat can easily control a display order of application pop-ups.

Means for Solving the Problems

A pop-up display device according to the invention comprises: an imagedisplay that displays hierarchical display images of an applicationconstituted by software having one or more functions; a displayinformation preserver in which settings of images to be displayed on theimage display are preserved; and a display controller that, when thehierarchical display images of the application preserved in the displayinformation preserver are displayed, controls a pop-up image thatcorresponds to said application but is other than the display images, tobe displayed on the front side of the hierarchical display images of theapplication.

Effect of the Invention

According to this invention, it becomes possible to easily control adisplay order of the application pop-ups.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline configuration of a pop-updisplay device according to Embodiment 1.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the pop-up display deviceaccording to Embodiment 1.

FIG. 3 is an illustration diagram showing an application configurationaccording to Embodiment 1.

FIG. 4 is an illustration diagram showing an internal configuration of adisplay stack 161.

FIG. 5 is an illustration diagram showing an internal configuration of adisplay stack 151.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of a display controlunit 12.

FIG. 7 is an illustration diagram showing an example of pop-updisplaying according to Embodiment 1.

FIG. 8 is an illustration diagram showing an example of conventionalpop-up displaying.

FIG. 9 is an illustration diagram showing an application configurationaccording to Embodiment 2.

FIG. 10 is an illustration diagram showing an internal configuration ofa display stack 171.

MODES FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, for illustrating this invention in more detail, embodimentsfor carrying out the invention will be described. It should be notedthat the embodiments shown below are each an example of the invention,so that the invention is not limited to the embodiments shown below.

Embodiment 1

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline configuration of a pop-updisplay device according to Embodiment 1 of the invention. A pop-updisplay device 1 in FIG. 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 2, amouse 3, a keyboard 4, a memory 5, a display 6 and a display memory 7.

The CPU 2 detects an event on the basis of an input signal, etc. fromthe mouse 3 or the keyboard 4, to thereby perform operation of anapplication and controlling of a display image, according to thedetected event. The mouse 3 and the keyboard 4 receive a user'soperation and output signals according to the user's operation to theCPU 2. The memory 5 stores information to be used in the processingexecuted by the CPU 2. The display 6 displays a display image controlledby the CPU 2. The display memory 7 stores information of the displayimage to be displayed on the display 6.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing functional blocks of thepop-up display device according to Embodiment 1 of the invention.

An input unit 8 serves to receive a user's operation for an applicationand to output a signal according to said user's operation, andcorresponds in this embodiment to the mouse 3 and the keyboard 4. Anevent detection unit 9 detects what event has occurred, on the basis ofthe signal outputted from the input unit 8, the state of theapplication, and the like. An application control unit 10 controlsoperation of the application on the basis of the event detected by theevent detection unit 9. A storing unit 11 serves to store information ofthe application to be controlled by the application control unit 10, andcorresponds in this embodiment to the memory 5. The display control unit12 serves to perform controlling of a display image displayed on thedisplay 6 under control of the application control unit 10, andcontrols, when hierarchical display images of the application aredisplayed, so that a pop-up image(s) corresponding to said applicationbut other than display images is displayed on the front side of thehierarchical display images of the application. Note that in thisembodiment, the event detection unit 9, the application control unit 10and the display control unit 12 correspond to CPU 2. A displayinformation preserving unit 13 serves to store the information of thedisplay image to be displayed on the display 6, and corresponds in thisembodiment to the display memory 7. An image display unit 14 displaysthe display image of the application. In this embodiment, it serves todisplay the hierarchical display images of the application, andcorresponds to the display 6.

FIG. 3 is an illustration diagram showing an application configurationof the pop-up display device 1.

In FIG. 3, an application manager 15 preserves and manages one or moreapplications 16. Each application 16 is constituted by software havingone or more functions, and, for example, has a function for an user toexecute an arbitrary work (for example, mail transmission/reception,music playback, etc.). In FIG. 3, the application manager 15 preservesand manages three applications 16, which are applications havingrespective different functions.

The application 16 preserves display contents and operations per eachapplication unit, each in a form of a window 17 as an internalfunctional unit. Thus, the application 16 has more than one window 17.Each window 17 is composed of a combination of more than one widget 18such as a button, a list and the like.

Further, the application 16 and the application manager 15 have displaystacks 161, 151 therein, respectively. These display stacks 161, 151 arepreserved in the display information preserving unit 13.

The display stack 161 is used to manage an overlapping order in displayof window images of the windows 17 (and widget images of the widgets 18therein) under management in the application 16. For example, when thereis a need to change the overlapping order of the window images on thebasis of the event detected by the event detection unit 9, the displaycontrol unit 12 rearranges the order of the window images (and thewidget images therein) preserved in the display stack 161 into anoverlapping order matched to the event, and controls them to bedisplayed on the image display unit 14 in the order after therearrangement. In this manner, when the display images and informationabout the overlapping order of that display images are stored asimage-setup information in the display stack 161 and the display imagesare controlled based on the stored information, it becomes possible torearrange the overlapping order of them displayed on the image displayunit 14.

Likewise, the display stack 151 is used to manage an overlapping orderin display of the applications 16.

Next, internal configurations of the display stacks will be described.

FIG. 4 is an illustration diagram showing the internal configuration ofthe display stack 161 of the application 16.

The display stack 161 has a window region 162 and an in-applicationpop-up region 163. The window 17 is composed, generally, of one or morewidgets 18, and the display information of the window image of thewindow 17 is composed of display information of the widget images of thewidgets 18. The thus-composed window image per each window unit isstored in the window region 162. Note that this window image per eachwindow unit is comparable to a window display image corresponding toeach hierarchy of the hierarchical display images of the application. Inthis embodiment, in the window region 162, there are stored three windowimages each per each window unit. Further, the window images of therespective windows are stored in an order from bottom to top in thewindow region 162 to be in conformity with the display-overlapping orderfrom the rear side to the front side on the display screen. Namely, thestored order corresponds to information of the overlapping order ofdisplay images. In such a case where a plurality of window images arestored in the window region 162, when the respective window images aredisplayed on the image display unit in an overlapped manner in an orderfrom the rear side to the front side, hierarchical display images in asingle application are displayed.

In the in-application pop-up region 163 in the display stack 161, thereare stored in-application pop-up images. The in-application pop-up imageis an image corresponding for example to a component, such as a widget,a sub-widget or the like (what is meant here is a child elementpreserved in a widget, such as a sub-menu preserved in a menu part as awidget) that is wanted to be displayed like a sub-menu, on the frontside of another window or another widget. In this embodiment, threeimages each corresponding to a window or a widget, are stored in thein-application pop-up region 163. Further, they are stored in an orderfrom bottom to top in the in-application pop-up region 163 to be inconformity with the display-overlapping order from the rear side to thefront side on the display screen. Namely, the stored order correspondsto information of the overlapping order of display images. In such acase where a plurality of images are stored in the in-application pop-upregion 163, when the respective images are displayed on the imagedisplay unit in an overlapped manner in an order from the rear side tothe front side, hierarchical display images in pop-up displaying in asingle application are displayed.

Further, with respect to the window region 162 and the in-applicationpop-up region 163, the images of the in-application pop-up region 163are being stored on the window images of the window region 162 to be inconformity with the display-overlapping order from the rear side to thefront side on the display screen. Namely, the stored order of therespective regions corresponds to information of the overlapping orderof display images. In such a case where the images of the in-applicationpop-up region 163 and the window images of the window region 162 arestored, when the respective images are displayed on the image displayunit in an overlapped manner in an order from the rear side to the frontside, the in-application pop-up images preserved in the in-applicationpop-up region 163 are pop-up displayed in front more than any windowimage of the window images preserved in the window region 162, so thathierarchical display images are displayed by the window images and thein-application pop-up images in a single application.

FIG. 5 is an illustration diagram showing the internal configuration ofthe display stack 151 of the application manager 15.

The display stack 151 has an application region 152 and a pop-up region153. In the application's display stack 152, there is stored each pieceof display-image information per each application unit and, for example,there is stored the display-image information, like the application'sdisplay stack shown in FIG. 4. In this embodiment, in the applicationregion 152, there are stored images each per each display-stack unit ofthree applications. Further, the images each per each display-stack unitof the respective applications are stored in an order from bottom to topin the application region 152 to be in conformity with thedisplay-overlapping order from the rear side to the front side on thedisplay screen. Namely, the stored order corresponds to information ofthe overlapping order of display images. In such a case where the imageseach per each display-stack unit of a plurality of applications arestored in the application region 152, when the respective images aredisplayed on the image display unit in an overlapped manner in an orderfrom the rear side to the front side, hierarchical display images by theplurality of applications are displayed.

In the pop-up region 153 in the display stack 151, there are storedpop-up images. The pop-up image is an image other than the set ofhierarchical display images of each application stored in theapplication region 152, and is an image that is to be displayed in frontmore than the images stored in the application region 152. The pop-upimage may be any display image corresponding to a component, such as,not only a widget but also a window, an application, etc.

For example, when, like a case of displaying an incoming phone call, awindow has to be displayed—even if the other applications are beingdisplayed—in the frontmost side of every application by the control ofthe application control unit 10 based on the event detected by the eventdetection unit 9, the window image of that window is stored in thepop-up region 153.

In this embodiment, in the pop-up region 153, there are stored threeimages each corresponding to a widget, a window or an application.Further, they are stored in an order from bottom to top in the pop-upregion 153 to be in conformity with the display-overlapping order fromthe rear side to the front side on the display screen. Namely, thestored order corresponds to information of the overlapping order ofdisplay images. In such a case where a plurality of images are stored inthe pop-up region 153, when the respective images are displayed on theimage display unit in an overlapped manner in an order from the rearside to the front side, hierarchical display images in pop-up displayingare displayed.

Further, with respect to the application region 152 and the pop-upregion 153, the pop-up images of the pop-up region 153 are being storedon the images of the application region 152 to be in conformity with thedisplay-overlapping order from the rear side to the front side on thedisplay screen. Namely, the stored order of the respective regionscorresponds to information of the overlapping order of display images.In such a case where the pop-up images of the pop-up region 153 and theimages of the application region 152 are stored, when the respectiveimages are displayed on the image display unit in an overlapped mannerin an order from the rear side to the front side, the pop-up imagespreserved in the pop-up region 153 are pop-up displayed in front morethan any image among the images preserved in the application region 152,so that hierarchical display images are displayed by the applicationimages and the pop-up images.

Note that the images stored in the display stack 151 and the displaystack 161 are images created by the display control unit 12 according toinstructions from the application control unit 10 or images preparedbeforehand, which have been stored by the display control unit 12according to instructions from the application unit 10.

Next, an operation of the display control unit 12 at the time ofdisplaying display images will be described.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation flow of the display controlunit 12.

The display control unit 12, firstly in Loop 21, processes therespective applications 16 stored in the application region 152 in thedisplay stack 151, in an order in the display stack from the bottom.Here, the currently-focused application is defined as A.

Then, in Loop 22, the windows 17 stored in the window region 162 in thedisplay stack 161 preserved in A, are processed in an order in thedisplay stack from the bottom. Here, the currently-focused window isdefined as W.

Then, in Loop 23, the widgets preserved in W are processed in an orderfrom the bottom. On this occasion, since the arrangement information ofthe widgets has already been put in the display stack 161, it sufficesto perform processing in the order in that information. Here, thecurrently-focused widget is defined as w. In Step 24, this widget isdisplayed.

After completion of Loop 23 and Loop 22, in Loop 25, the components c(indicative of a widget and a window, herein) stored in thein-application pop-up region 163 preserved in A, are displayed in theorder in the display stack from the bottom (Step 26).

After completion of Loop 25 and Loop 21, then in Loop 27, the componentsC stored in the pop-up region 153 of the application manager 15 aredisplayed in an order in the display stack from the bottom (Step 28).

When this Loop 27 is completed, a series of display processing by theapplication manager 15 is completed. Note that this operation isexecuted every time when a change in display content occurs, forexample, when an event is detected by the event detection unit 9.

FIG. 7 is an illustration diagram showing an example of pop-updisplaying according to this embodiment 1. FIG. 8 is an illustrationdiagram showing an example of conventional pop-up displaying.

As in FIG. 8, when hierarchical display images of an application arebeing displayed by a main window and a sub-menu, if an image of a dialogwindow for alerting is displayed, because there is focused only on afront-rear relationship between the main window and the dialog window,the image of the dialog window is placed and hidden under (behind) thesub-menu image in the main-window image.

In FIG. 7, when hierarchical display images of the application are beingdisplayed by the main window and the sub-menu, if an image of the dialogwindow is displayed, the image of the dialog window is displayed on thefrontmost side. This is because the window image of the main window isbeing stored in the window region 162 in FIG. 4, and the image of thesub-menu is being stored in the in-application pop-up region 163 in FIG.4. This is further because the dialog window is being stored in thepop-up region 153 in FIG. 5.

As described above, according to this embodiment, it includes thedisplay control unit that, when hierarchical display images of anapplication are displayed, controls the pop-up images corresponding tosaid application but other than display images, to be displayed on thefront side of the hierarchical display images of the application, sothat it becomes possible to easily control the display order of theapplication pop-ups even in such an environment where a group of widgetsare provided as a framework, for example.

Further, according to this embodiment, the display informationpreserving unit is separately preserving in the display stack of theapplication manager, the pop-up images and the hierarchical displayimages of the application, respectively, in the pop-up region and theapplication region; and the display control unit controls to display thepop-up images preserved in the pop-up region, on the front side of thehierarchical display images of the application preserved in theapplication region, so that the pop-up images are displayed on the frontside of the hierarchical display images in a single application. Thus,it becomes possible to easily control the display order of theapplication pop-ups.

Further, according to this embodiment, the display informationpreserving unit is separately preserving in the display stack of theapplication, the window display images corresponding to the respectivehierarchies of the hierarchical display images of the application andthe in-application pop-up images other than said window images, in thewindow region and the in-application pop-up region, respectively; andthe display control unit controls to display the in-application pop-upimages preserved in the in-application pop-up region, on the front sideof the window display images preserved in the window region, so that thein-application pop-up images in a single application and the pop-upimages to be displayed preferentially on the front side of any one ofthe applications, are displayed distinctively. Thus, it becomes possibleto easily control the display order of the application pop-ups.

Further, according to this embodiment, it is configured: so that thepop-up region and the application region are provided in the displaystack of the application manager, and the window region and thein-application pop-up region are provided in the display stack of theapplication; and so that it is able to freely and individually selectwhich portion in the above regions, each component, such as a widget, awindow, or an application is placed in. This allows, with respect to thedisplay position control, a creator of the respective components to givea certain priority to each piece of pop-up information (a priority interms of whether to be placed above an application, or above a window)through a simple operation only by specifying a display area, to therebyfulfill the specification as desired. Thus, it becomes possible toeasily control the display order of the application pop-ups.

For example, as described in the example shown in FIG. 7, when asub-menu is stored in the in-application pop-up region 163 in theapplication and a dialog window is stored in the pop-up region 153 inthe application manager, it becomes possible to display the dialogwindow above the sub-menu. Meanwhile, when, from this dialog window,another application is to be displayed above the former application,according to a conventional method, the sub-menu having been pop-updisplayed has to be removed at the time of displaying the otherapplication. This is because the sub-menu is otherwise displayed abovesuch a new application. Thus, if returning to the former applicationagain, it is difficult to get such a state where the sub-menu is beingdisplayed. However, according to the present configuration, whenreturning to the former application again from the other application, itbecomes possible to display, while keeping the sub-menu open, anotherapplication above them, so that internal control operation can also besimplified.

Note that, in this embodiment, the description has been made about acase where, with respect to the information of the overlapping order ofthe display images, an upper-lower order of the images stored in thedisplay stack and the overlapping order of the display images are madecorresponding to each other; however, the upper-lower order of theimages stored in the display stack may not be such a physical order, andmay be a logically established order, of course.

Further, in this embodiment, the description has been made about a casewhere there is provided the input unit 8, and the event detection unit 9detects what event has occurred, on the basis of the signal outputtedfrom the input unit 8, the state of the application, and the like;however, in the case where the event detection unit 9 detects anoccurrence of an event without being based on the signal outputted fromthe input unit 8, the configuration may be that in which the input unit8 is removed.

Embodiment 2

While the foregoing Embodiment 1 is that which preserves two pop-upregions of an in-application pop-up region and an inter-applicationpop-up region, in the following, an embodiment will be shown in which anarea of the pop-up region is specified even in the window.

According to a pop-up display device of Embodiment 2, the block diagramshowing its outline configuration and the functional block diagramshowing its functional blocks, are the same as those of Embodiment 1, sothat their description is omitted here.

FIG. 9 is an illustration diagram showing an application configurationof the pop-up display device 1 of Embodiment 2. Since its basicconfiguration is the same as in FIG. 3, the same numerals are given tothe same or equivalent parts in FIG. 3, so that their description isomitted here.

In FIG. 9, the windows 17 have their respective display stacks 171.These display stacks 171 are stored in the display informationpreserving unit 13. Each stack is similar in basic configuration to thedisplay stack 161 in the application 16, and is used to manage anoverlapping order in display of the widget images in the window. Thedisplay control unit 12 stores the display images and information aboutthe overlapping order of that display images, as display setupinformation, in the display stack 171, and controls the display imageson the basis of the stored information, so that the overlapping order ofthose displayed on the image display unit 14 can be rearranged.

FIG. 10 is an illustration diagram showing the internal configuration ofthe display stack 171.

The stack is basically similar to that shown in FIG. 4 or FIG. 5, andhas internally a widget region 172 for normally arranging the widgetsand an in-window pop-up region 173.

In this embodiment, the display control unit 12 performs processing ofdrawing the widget images of the respective widgets, in Loop 23 in FIG.6 and further, in the order from the widget region 172 to the in-windowpop-up region 173, as well as in the order from the bottom. With theprovision of the in-window pop-up region 173 in this manner, it becomespossible to cause pop-up displaying in the window.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the widget displayimages for forming a window display image corresponding to eachhierarchy of the hierarchical display images of the application, and thein-window pop-up images other than said widget display images, areseparately stored in the widget region and the in-window pop-up region,respectively; and the display control unit controls to display thein-window pop-up images stored in the in-window pop-up region on thefront side of the widget display images stored in the widget region.Namely, it is so configured that the regions each for storing a pop-upimage are provided at in-window, inter-window (in application) andinter-application areas, respectively, so that in-window, intra-window(in-application) and intra-application pop-up displays are displayed,individually. Thus, it becomes possible to easily specify pop-upprocessing matched to a variety of functions, for example, to specify:as an in-window pop-up, a sub-menu; as an inter-window (in-application)pop-up, a window wanted to be displayed in the frontmost side in anapplication (for example, a file-open dialog, a color-selection dialog,or the like); and as an inter-application pop-up, a window of incomingphone call; or the like. Thus, it becomes possible to easily control thedisplay order of the application pop-ups.

It should be noted that the foregoing embodiments will be applied, in asimilar manner, to the case where a sub-window exists additionally inthe window to provide a nested structure.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

As described above, the pop-up display device according to the inventionis suited to be installed in an apparatus that performs pop-updisplaying at the time of displaying hierarchical display images of theapplication constituted by software having an arbitrary function.

DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS and SIGNS

1: pop-up display device, 2: CPU, 3: mouse, 4: keyboard, 5: memory, 6:display, 7: display memory, 8: input unit, 9: event detection unit, 10:application control unit, 11: storing unit, 12: display control unit,13: display information preserving unit, 14: image display unit, 15:application manager, 16: application, 17: window, 18: widget, 151:display stack, 161: display stack, 162: window region, 163:in-application pop-up region, 171: display stack, 172: widget region,173: in-window pop-up region.

1. A pop-up display device, comprising: an image display that displayshierarchical display images of an application constituted by softwarehaving one or more functions; a display information preserver in whichsettings of images to be displayed on the image display are preserved;and a display controller that, when the hierarchical display images ofthe application preserved in the display information preserver aredisplayed, controls a pop-up image that corresponds to said applicationbut is other than the display images, to be displayed on the front sideof the hierarchical display images of the application, wherein thedisplay information preserver separately preserves the pop-up image andthe hierarchical display images of the plurality of applications in apop-up region and an application region, respectively, and separatelypreserves window display images corresponding to respective hierarchiesof the hierarchical display images of the application, and anin-application pop-up image other than the window display images, in awindow region and an in-application pop-up region, respectively, andwherein the display controller controls to display the pop-up imagepreserved in the pop-up region, on the front side of the hierarchicaldisplay images of the application preserved in the application region,and controls to display the in-application pop-up image preserved in thein-application pop-up region, on the front side of the window displayimages preserved in the window region.
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 3. (canceled) 4.The pop-up display device of claim 1, wherein: the display informationpreserver separately preserves widget display images for forming windowdisplay images corresponding to respective hierarchies of thehierarchical display images of the application and an in-window pop-upimage other than said widget display images, in a widget region and anin-window pop-up region, respectively; and the display controllercontrols to display the in-window pop-up image preserved in thein-window pop-up region, on the front side of the widget display imagespreserved in the widget region.